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Blindly Detecting Orbital Modulations of Jets from Merging Supermassive Black Holes

  • Authors: R. O'Shaughnessy, D. L. Kaplan, A. Sesana, and A. Kamble

O'Shaughnessy et al. 2011 The Astrophysical Journal 743 136.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 7.

Typical lifetime: the average log lifetime <log  T > vs. scaled flux F/ epsilon, including sources with observed orbital period <1 yr. The brightest sources have short typical lifetimes, as they consist of the most massive nearby SMBH binaries in tight orbits.

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